{"id":12630,"date":"2026-11-08T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/euromatch-npfl-rangers-maintain-top-spotenyimba-stumble-against-ranchers-bees\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T18:31:45","slug":"euromatch-npfl-rangers-maintain-top-spotenyimba-stumble-against-ranchers-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/euromatch-npfl-rangers-maintain-top-spotenyimba-stumble-against-ranchers-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Euromatch NPFL: Rangers Maintain Top Spot,Enyimba Stumble Against Ranchers Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rangers International maintained their position at the top of the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, table following a narrow 1-0 victory over Kwara United in Awka on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Chimezie scored the decisive goal five minutes before half-time to secure all three points for Rangers, who now have 24 points from 11 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Bendel Insurance climbed to second place after securing a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Niger Tornadoes at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu Mohammed put Niger Tornadoes ahead from the penalty spot nine minutes before the break.<\/p>\n<p> However, Jonathan Mairiga restored parity for Insurance in added time before John Taiwo scored the winning goal deep into stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/euromatch-npfl-rangers-unveil-october-goal-of-the-month-nominees\/\">Euromatch NPFL: Rangers Unveil October Goal Of  The Month Nominees<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In another fixture, former champions Enyimba suffered a 1-0 defeat to Niger Tornadoes. <\/p>\n<p>Chiedozie Jude Okorie scored the only goal of the encounter three minutes before half-time to hand his side the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Abia Warriors and Doma United played out an entertaining 2-2 draw in Aba.<\/p>\n<p>Tijani Azeez gave Doma United an early lead just five minutes into the match, but Emeka Obioma equalised for the hosts in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Doma United regained the lead through Samuel Akpan in the 69th minute before Obioma completed his brace 10 minutes later to ensure both sides shared the points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Results <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bendel Insurance 2-1 Tornadoes<br \/>Rangers 1-0 Kwara Utd<br \/>Barau 1-0 Shooting Stars<br \/>Abia Warriors 2-2 Doma Utd<br \/>Ranchers 1-0 Enyimba<br \/>Nasarawa Utd 3-1 Plateau Utd<br \/>Wolves 1-1 Katsina Utd<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rangers International maintained their position at the top of the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, table following a narrow 1-0 victory over Kwara United in Awka on Sunday. Victor Chimezie&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}